Pebble Beach 2011 - show pics

California’s famous Pebble Beach golf course played host to the annual Concours d’Elegance over the weekend. As well as featuring some of the world’s most expensive and collectible classic cars, the show also played host to significant world debuts of modern-day machinery.

Other concepts included Lotus’s new Evora GTE, a race car-inspired version of the Evora that’s road legal. The Norfolk firm was shown alongside a special Final Edition of the Exige, which is being phased out in its current guise.

There was also a North American debut for the new 1350bhp SSC Tuatara concept. A production version will follow in 2013, when the car will embark on a quest to set a lap record at the Nurburgring for a production car.

The ‘Best in Show’ award at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance went to a 1934 Voisin C-25 Aerodyne. Only 25 examples of the C-25 were ever produced by Voisin, a European engineering form which also manufactured aircrafts.